Thread: Return an array of Pairs that have the same length as the input array of Strings.

Hey everyone,
I want to create a class that would return an array of pairs that have the same length as the input array of strings.
In addition, the pair should have the first letter of the string and length of the string.

for example;
create(new String[] {"clue", "yay", "neon", "halala"})
should return the array of Pairs
{[’c’,4],[’y’,3],[’n’,4],['h',6]}

So, my input and output would both be arrays. But the output has to be in the form of a pair. Here's what i tried:

import java.util.Arrays;
 
 
public class Couple {
 
 
public static Couple[] create(String[] source){
 
		for (int i = 0; i < source.length; i++) {
 
			System.out.print("["+","+source.length+"]") ;
			 }
		return null;
 
	}			 
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println(Arrays.toString(create(new String[] {"clue", "yay", "neon", "halala"})));
 
	}
 
}

as it's obvious there are a few errors+ i dont want it to return null. But just for the sake of testing this code, i had to do it.
Any ideas?

@MartinEnergy Welcome to the forum.
Please see: The problem with spoonfeeding

Hi. Well first lets take a look at what you're doing here... No matter what your method is going to return null because that's what you've told it to do. You basically just said to return this method with a null value.

So think of it this way.. I will give you a poorly thought of metaphor. Think of the array "source" as a piece of paper, and the strings you input to the array as words on the piece of paper. If you wanted to see how long one of the words on the sheet of paper was, would you measure the paper it's on? or the word? Think about that and read over these lines:

for (int i = 0; i < source.length; i++) {
 
			System.out.print("["+","+source.length+"]") ;

What....? Please don't listen to Martin. There is no reason to make an object for your task is much simpler than that.

Hemla if you are not looking to find a value, but rather do a certain sequence of things to have them get done, ex println's, then you may utilize a void type method. That way you will not have to return a value at all, but just execute the code block written within your method.

As for the length of the string, you are simply accessing their value wrong. But I'm sure you could pull it from the heaping spoon of code Martin gave you...